Opinion

Lloyd Corporation v. Whiffen

  • 307 Or. 674
  • 773 P.2d 1294
Court
Oregon Supreme Court
Filed
May 9, 1989
Status
Published
Author
Peterson
On the bench
Peterson, Linde, Campbell, Carson, Jones, Gillette, Van Hoomissen
Cited by
27 cases

holding that signature gatherers could not be enjoined from gathering signatures at the Lloyd Center because the Center’s invitation to the public “was broad and for more than commercial activity”

How later courts described this case

  • holding that signature gatherers could not be enjoined from gathering signatures at the Lloyd Center because the Center’s invitation to the public “was broad and for more than commercial activity”
  • describing the Lloyd Center property
  • injunction against trespass at Lloyd Center will not issue if it would cause serious injury to public interest
  • injunction against soliciting signatures for initiative at shopping mall lifted on nonconstitutional grounds

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

PETERSON, C. J.,

dissenting.

I join in the opinion of Justice Carson. I am impelled to add that the majority, without unction, has interred over one hundred years of good trespass injunction law. This three-sentence opinion will be its only tombstone.

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